I know there are some clean engines on here. I'm interested in cleaning mine up. Going to enter the truck in a few shows next spring....Yes I know I need a good CAI and headers, those are next.

I've painted the alternator and bracket, and the tensioner pulley bracket gloss black. Also painted the P & P'd throttle body gloss black. Had the valve covers green, then red, now I'm going black. Everything else is going pewter, professionally. Having it all painted this weekend. tearing the truck down now to get it all ready.

To be painted:
1. Cowl
2. Wipers
3. Brake booster
4. complete intake manifold
5. Fuel rails, fuel lines
6. front core support cover
7. Vortec engine cover (new one-messed the other one up)
8. coilpacks and brackets (painting over spraypaint)
9. New paintable cover for battery, coolant tank
10. LH and RH fender to firewall brackets
11. RH lower fender to firewall bracket
12. Fusebox already painted, as well as cruise control box
13. Various caps, i.e. oil, coolant, brake......
14. PCM cover
15?
16?

Any other things I should paint? Really thinking of pulling the e-fans and painting.....Also thinking of pulling the altenator and bracket off again to get at the water pump so I can paint it black to match, I hate that aluminum look. Thats a lot of extra work though....ALso going to pull the tow hooks and have painted, the air bag cover on the dash cause it wasnt painted when the dash was, and also the steering shaft under the hood will be pewter.

Any suggestions other than that? I'm going to paint all the frame I can get to with satin black under there....of course wipe the hell outta everything. Anyone run clear heater hoses or do they end up looking nasty? Already have a new underhood insulater thats nice and black......

THrow me some suggestions, and subscribe for the end result!!

Had it green


Then red

 

thats a lot of work just to paint some stuff. i'll just leave my stuff stock looking, people expect less that way

 

People can expect whatever they want when its sitting in the grass with the hood open next to other trucks that arent done up as extensively as mine. Fortunately all they know is what they see

 

yours looks great
I like mine plain,nothing crazy.
I use the vortecmax 3 piece covors and keep everything clean!!

 

my truck will never be a show truck, i might pop the hood in a parking lot after a race or something but thats about it. what color are you going with this time?

 

All pewter. Professionally done, everything. Thinking of black for the valve covers to match the alternator and tb.

Pewter is both boring and classy enough to me, that you can slather everything in it and it will look like it was meant to be. Other colors like red just look tacky when the whole engine bay is that color

 

what about that shaved intake manifold??

a little elbow grease on those a/c lines would have them looking nice too

the vette coolant bottle is a clean looking upgrade too, or one from an 07+ truck

 

IMHO, I think the Red/Pewter mix looked nice. I've always been partial to red stuff, though...

 

I like how everything looks just cleaned up...I had the cadillac 3 piece engine cover on my 03 tahoe painted black. Other than that it was too much to clean up an wipe on for me..ha

 

Looks like you have most of your bases covered. The hardest part is going to be to hide all those wires and hoses. That sure would help all your hard work stand out and be that much more appreciated.